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\u201cSan Gabriel Valley voters are faced with a very stark choice,\u201d said\u00a0David Diaz,\u00a0Executive Director of Active San Gabriel Valley. \u201cIf Measure A does not pass, the ability of homeless service organizations to conduct outreach and connect with unhoused people on the street and move them into housing will collapse. Equally frightening, they will be unable to continue the services that are keeping more than 4,000 people stably housed today. The choice is clear: Approve Measure A so we can move people off the street, focus on prevention and implement strict new accountability, or the crisis on SGV streets will get much much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
ActiveSGV has endorsed Measure A, the countywide citizen\u2019s initiative, on the November 5 ballot to replace Measure H and protect funding for life-saving housing and services.<\/p>\n
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Data from the LA County Homeless Initiative projects that within a year of Measure H\u2019s expiration and the loss of the programs it funds, more than\u00a057,400\u00a0people may become unsheltered.<\/p>\n
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\u201cPeople aren\u2019t broken, systems are broken\u2013and we must do all we can to prevent more of our neighbors from being forced to sleep outside,\u201d says\u00a0Shawn Morrissey,\u00a0Vice President of Advocacy & Community Engagement for Union Station Homeless Services, the largest provider of services that end homelessness in the San Gabriel Valley. Morrissey is formerly unhoused and heads up the agency\u2019s Lived Expertise Advisory Panel, a group of civic-minded advocates with firsthand experience being homeless.<\/p>\n
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Union Station is one of the many organizations ending homelessness for thousands of people through current programs that would end when funding expires.<\/p>\n
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Union Station practices a Housing First model of trauma-informed care grounded in harm reduction. This time-tested approach is why they boast a\u00a097% success rate<\/a>\u00a0in transitioning people who come through their doors out of homelessness and into stable housing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An assessment of the number of people served by current programs shows what would be lost within each region of Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXde4uHugKmrpZETOlmsbEZxLNTwRusBFPCo-ar5wH8VPa6LDOwj8TjyZmmjxT2SvOfFBUVkXUjWJ5V08pESTx61PWV6Q3UKzLnwIjlArqBSguvJWl1HX7DZHP7QWpBs9BKC4xAGCyfUjLZXFjuOWAmyNUf4?key=qvp5F8DfVSFdGAXrnA7CGQ\")